Typhoon Roke

Meters away, Typhhon Roke huffs and puffs and threatens to blow our house down. For the moment, however, I am content to sit inside our little bento box apartment and watch the rain streak across the balcony door. We’ve weathered bad storms here before. This building flexes and and shakes like a ship at sea, but it hasn’t failed us yet. There’s something to learn in the wisdom of cheap building materials: sometimes it’s better to roll with the blows than to resist…